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Originally Posted by squirrellypoo
while it can work brilliantly on AA, ATG has no effect on hypo-MDS.
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I have to disagree with this. Finding my husband's trisomy 8 changed his official diagnosis to hypo-MDS, but it has not changed his response to ATG. He has had a very good (if slow) response. It is the hypercellular forms of MDS that are not as likely to respond to that treatment, although there have been some cases that have.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...ubmed_RVDocSum
I also want to give a big thumbs up to KimO's reply. Her answers to all the questions are right on the money!
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-Lisa, husband Ken age 60 dx SAA 7/04, dx hypo MDS 1/06 w/finding of trisomy 8; 2 ATGs, partial remission, still using cyclosporine
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